Vengeance Is Mine (#384) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

[Horhay]

Purchase: August 26, 2014
Purchase: Amazon

Japan
1979
140 minutes
Color
1.66:1
Japanese

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the primitive coexisting with the modern. More than just a true-crime tale, Vengeance Is Mine bares humanity’s snarling id.

Disc Features:

1. New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
2. Audio commentary from 2005 featuring critic Tony Rayns
3. Excerpts from a 1999 interview with director Shohei Imamura, produced by the Directors Guild of Japan
4. Trailer and teaser
5. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson, a 1994 interview with Imamura by writer Toichi Nakata, and writings by Imamura on Vengeance Is Mine and his approach to filmmaking

 

[Aw 83]

Thanks for info on this mate and on the story is there a final artwork for this title or not yet it sounds very interesting...

 

[Horhay]

The final artwork is in the op.

 

[Horhay]

Purchase link added to OP.

 

[grimtales1]

Hey,
I have the Eureka MoC DVD and havent seen the film yet I think the UK MoC art is better though.

What's the general opinion of the film - entertaining or not, hard to watch?